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5,v v ' ' **OLD JIM BRIDGER. A Rocky Mountain Guide Who TSoug'.r I Munchausen Was a Liar. Sir George Gore, a wealthy Irish : sportsman, began in 1S55 a hunt;:), expedition among the Kooky mo.:::- j tains which occupied two years and ? exceeded anything of the kind ever < Been on this continent. ThAutfit eons-isted of fifty persons, incwding secretaries, a steward, cooks, fly makers. dog tenders, servants, a train of thirtv watrons and numerous sad- I die horses and dogs. Old Jim Bridger was Sir George's **guide and interpreter, and no man ' on the frontier knew the glens and "T" passes of the mountains so accurate* ly a^he did. Though illiterate and J as unconventional as an Indian. " Bridger was honest, kind, generous and shrewd?just the man to attract the Irish sportsman. In his "Old Santa Fe Trail" Colonel Inman describes the companionship of the two men?one a rich, ?ducated, whole souled Irish nobleman, the other a man who from boyhood had lived on the plains, depending on his tact and rifle for food and life. Sir George would lie in bed until 10 o'clock in the morning. Then he \ took a bath, ate his breakfast and i'set out generally alone for the day's dhunt. It was not unusual for him pto remain out until 10 at night, and che seldom returned without''meat." . His dinner was then served, to "which he extended an invitation to Bridger. _ After the meal was over Sir CGeor~e was in the habit of reading afrom some book and drawing out ilfrom Bridger his ideas about the pauthor. ^ The Irishman usually read from .Shakespeare, which Bridger reckaoned was too highfalutin for him. "Thet thar big Dutchman, Mr. ifFullstuff," he commented, "was a fcleetle too fond of lager beer." ? Sir George read the "Adventures of Baron Munchausen" to Bridger, awho remarked that he'd be' doggoned ef he swallowed everything that thar baron said. Pie thought he was a "liar/' yet acknowledged that some of his own adventures ? il. ? -A*1 tPAllU ! ainuug me uiocivicti ?uuiu w equally wonderful "if writ down in j a book." Bridger thought Sir George a successful hunter, an opinion justified by the records of the two years' hunt?forty grizzly bears, 2,500 bufiirdoes, numerous antelopes and othj^ma11 ?ame*' A Mark of Idontification. rne5d uiing the holding of an inqnest . had been adjourned several a an important witness from motne. was being questioned by ceremi t>ner when the following diaL M C place: is paBVner?^ou knew deceased ~ well, I believe, and could Potify him. ^ Witness?Yes; I should know 'im aigin.- ^ ? . ia j A photograph of the deceased was a#.ien handed to the witness. Coroner?Do you recognize that? Witness (shaking his head)?No; I dunno who that is. Coroner?You said you should know him again if you saw him-. ^ Witness?So I should, sir. But I ^ don't think I could tell 'i9 picture. ? Coroner?What was there about the' deceased that you would know again? . < * j Witness (brightening up) ?Jlia stutteY,-sin 'E stuttered awftdl? London Judy. Crushing a Clark. He was rather carelessly dressed, yet any one who is at all an observer could have seen at a glance that his clothes were of excellent material and had evidently been made by a good tailor. But the clerk in the hat shop was young, and he stood by watching the customer pull over an ^ assortment of colored hatbands until he struck one that caught his fancy. "I'll take this one," he said, handing it to the clerk. "That's the New York Yacht club's colors," remarked the clerk, as if that settled the question. The customer looked at him sharply and repeated his statement that he ^ -a-nnlil take the blue and red and iwhite band he held in his hand. l "But you don't want that," pro jsted the clerk. "That's only worn Ry members of the New York Yacht club." "I'm one. Just put it on my hat, 6onny," said the man dryly. The clerk wilted.?Yachtsman. Marrying a Stick. ^PThat is a curious custom they Rve in some of the south sea islands," said Mr. Wallace, "of marryLg a girl to a tree or some inanimate object which is supposed to let as a sort of scapegoat for the Ihortcomings of the real live husland." I "It is not unusual," said Mrs. Wallace, "for a woman in this country to be married to a stick." .But Mr. Wallace, with the calm ?tperiority of the masculine mind, fused to deem it a personal mat .?London Telegraph. 0 ? . / " There's Never a Man Runs North Xhe hero's figh his property ai to win the won from a powerfi lous and favore that brilliant .i Klondike The Sp By Rex E ILLUSTRATED I ~ THE SP< Pav IT JLiJ 11CA JLJi Illustrated by Grant This story of "the hunger the hills, and the blinding 1 man and for woman's love, of the Klondike before the DON'T MISS THE FIR J V* % 1 f'1 ^ ' J ''^ Law of God or of Fifty-three.*' - 0 it to recover id his efforts ^ nan he loves A, unscrupu- ~ d rival make m storv of the & oilers i !. Beach BY GRANT ^7^ ?~g-m M & FILERS \ . Beach and Copyrighted for gold digged out of lunger of man for wo" being a vivid picture 5 reign of law. ST INSTALLMENT I | aJUU^AAAAJ^AAi) ^ A Boston T weak and sickly. ? His arms w T H? didn't Kava & i X entire body. X The phjriapi o the family fop a 9 Scott's E funis NOW: 9 To feel th would think he wi rsflJO blacksmith. ( Fjj ALL DRUGGISTS; 500 sks. rice?grade and price to suit customers. Wii.kins 1-16 3t "My grocery line is about complete and will save you money. 116-31. wilkixs Do tou have backache occasionally, or "stitches" in the 'side, ifnd sometimes do you feel all tired out, without energy? If so your kidm-ys are out of order. Take Dewitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. They promptly relievebackacby,weak back inflammation of the bladder and, weak kidneys. Sold by W L Wal lace, M. D.0 3: N^t Afrcid. He has not learned the lesson of his life who does not every day surmount a fear. If you have no faith in a benelicent power above yon, but see only an adamantine fate coiling its folds about nature and man, then reflect that the best use | of fate is to teach us courage. If j you have no confidence in anv for' eign mind, then be bravp because there is always one good opinion which must always be of importance vnn?nnmplv vnnr own.?Ralnh "" J ? ? ~-J ) J 1? Waldo Emerson. A tickling cough, from any cause, is quickly stopped by Dr Sboop's 1 Cough Cure. And it is so thoroughly harmless and safe, thatDr Shoop tells mothers everywhere to give it without hesitation, even to very young babes. The wholesome greeu leaves aud tender stems of a lunghealing mountainous shrub, furnish the curative properties to Dr Shoop's Cough Cure. It calms the cough, and heals the sore and sensitive bronchial membranes. No opiupi, no chloroform, nothing harsh used to injure or surpress.Simply a resinous plaut extract, that helps to heal acting lungs. The Spaniards call this shrub which the Dr uses, "The Sacred Herb." Alwavs demand Dr Shoop'8 Cough Cure. D C OCUll. / J MAGAZINEn READERS |~ 8CV8KT MAGAZIHX beautifuDy illmtratccl. yood <ofia aad articles about Qb|M| and * *5? all the Fa?W**... *rmt CAMXKA CfiAFT tleroted each aooth to the artube reprodocboa of the bat $1,00 work el amateur aad profawoaal , j-llf photographers. RO AI> 07 A THOUSA5D WO H DIM book of 73 peg**, coouiaing 120 colored photograph* of $0.75 ptcturwqoe ipote la California tad Oitgoo. Tool . . . $3.25 All for . . . . $1.50 Addrara all order* Co SUffSET MAGAZIFB Flood Building San Fraacieco Don't Wait! TILL YOURIPROPERTY IS DESTROYED, BUT INSURE NOW, Against Loss By Fire or Cyclone. If you want the best, get your Insurance in a strong- "Old Line" company. 1 represent several of the largest Fire and Cyclone Insurance Companies. L. H. FAIREY At Bank of Kingstree. 7-24-tf. schoolboy was tall, ere soft and flabby. ? S strong muscle in his X W J; J w st ?; e. p. sv et ____ ^ p Thaae Hurtling Americana. At a recent gathering id Balti- 0| more two r.:en from different sections of the country were discussing re H 1 A LL A1 me capauiuties 01 "nervous, resuess qi Americans'* for beipg most slow and deliberate. The Marvlander claimed the palm for slowness for the inhabitants of the Eastern Shore of T [ hfs state. fc "It is a saying hereabouts/' said he, ''that' if oysters had been ere- , ated with legs the people of the Eastern Shore would all have starved to death." ''The folks around Mount Monad- p nock have a saying that beats p yours/' remarked a Vermont man. "Of one man up there it used to be observed that if you were to give Hiram Higgins forty yards start stock still would catch him!"?Har- ^ pei^s Weekly. p; AGE NO BAD. $ Everybody in South Carolina is v| eligible. * ^ * Old people stooped with suffering, ai Middle age, courageously fighting, ai 1 l?i.: 4.1 _. t,i '[ loiun pruiesuug luipaiicuiij, -Children, unable to explain; , All in misery from their kidneys. a] Only a little backache first. p i Comes when you catch a cold. Or when you strain the back. | Many complications follow. ?| t'liuary disorders, diabetes, Blight's .disease. | Do.in'8 Kidney Pills cure backache. ft C'urc.every form of kidney ills. 2j T W PowJl, proprietor of a gen- ? era 1 store at d coal, wood and ice $ d.uler of Waveily, living at. 2010 jfl Blinding St , Columbia, S C, says: ? "My sou has been afflicted with kid- 4 ney and urinary trouble from child- X hood, being unable to control the ? a< cretions especially when asleep. " Since using Doan'3 Kidney Pills he ft has entirely recovered.'* 4} For sale by all dealers. Price 50 4 'cents. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffa- X | lo, New York, sole agents for thd ft United Mates. w Remember the name?Doan'a? jj| aud'take no other. " | i Hereafter we positively refuse to publish any communica- " | tion received at this^offlce later | ' than Tuesday, noon, except lo- I jcaland personal items, which I . will'nnt hf? available later than 1 Wednesday, noon, for the current week. By trying- to be accommodating we are thrown late every week and we are tired of it. This notice'-' applies to j EVERY BODY. 4-25-tf. linsiifj r Applied by skilled mechanics 3 ( is worth a fair price. Cheap } ? mixtures slopped on 'by cheap j ! r painters are dear at any price. } r We expect to receive a reason- 3 r able equivalent for our labor. J r But we give an honest dollar's c . r worth for every dollar we get, ? ' ? and we endeavor to permanent- J , ? ly satisfy Our customers. ^ L ALFRED WELLS, j| ^ Painter and Paper Hanger, ) j KINGSTREE, S. C. I j } Leave orders with j j Kiogstree Hardware Co.j v ? % ^ IE THRICE 1-WEEK WORLD 111 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEAR. ere Alert, More Thorough and More Fearless Than Ever Read Id Every English Spoken Country. A president of the United tates will be elected this year, hois'lie and who is the man hom he will beat? Nobody it knows, but the Thrice-a reek World will tell you every :ep and every detail of what -omises to be a campaign of te most absorbing interest. It ay not tell you what you hope it it will tell you what is. The lirice-a-Week World long ago ?tablished a character for imartiality and fearlessness ia \e publicacion of news, and lis it will maintain. If you ant the news as it really is lbscribe to the Thrice-a-Week lition of the New York World, hich comes to you every other . ay, except Sunday, and is thus ractically a daily at the price F a weekly. The Thrice-a-Week World's , jgular subscription. price is lily $1.00 per ^ear, and this N ays for 159 papers. We ofer lis unequalled newspaper- and he County Record together*>r one year for $1.75. The regularsubscriptinn price I t!fe two papers is $2.00. Your choice steak" at Peole's Market, "Scott & Miller roprietors. " 11-21-tt m m m Registration Notice. Theoffice ot the Supervisor of Key tratioii will be Opened on the first Londay in every month for the pur[weof-the registering of any person ho is qualified as follows: Who shall have beefr * resident of le State for vjears^and of the, >udty one /eir, add of the polling pre-' net in which fche^eptor offers ta )te four mcnths before the day of ection. and shativ bive . paid, six onths before, any poll.U*.then due [id payable^ and who can, both read / id write any section of the constituon of 1895 submitted to him by the u per visors of Registration, or who in show that he owns, and has paid ? 11 taxes collectable on during the resent year, pioperty in this state >ae?sed at three hundred dollars or , ore. J. Y. McGILL, * Clerk of Board. CLEANING | and Pressing, ft | Cleaning and Pressing and j * Slight Alterations of Clothes J done?the best of Style by P. j V. Ilazel?next door to Corner I Drug Store. ENTRANCE jk back in Recess side of Stairs. ? 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